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US-7593467

Method and apparatus for decoding video signal using reference pictures

PublishedSeptember 22, 2009
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Technical Abstract

In the method for decoding a video signal, at least a portion of a current image in a current layer is predicted based on at least a portion of a reference image and offset information. The offset information may indicate a position offset between at least one boundary pixel of the reference image and at least one boundary pixel of the current image.

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1. A method for decoding a video signal in a video decoder apparatus, comprising: obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, offset information between at least one boundary pixel of a reference image and at least one boundary pixel of a current image from a sequence header or a slice header, the reference image being up-sampled from an image of the base layer; determining, with the decoding apparatus, whether a corresponding block referred by a current block is positioned in an up-sampled image of the base layer, based on the offset information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a pixel value of the corresponding block based on the determining step; and decoding, with the decoding apparatus, the current block using the pixel value of the corresponding block, the offset information including, left offset information indicating a position offset between at least one left side pixel of the reference image and at least one left side pixel of the current image, top offset information indicating a position offset between at least one top side pixel of the reference image and at least one top side pixel of the current image, right offset information indicating a position offset between at least one right side pixel of the reference image and at least one right side pixel of the current image, and bottom offset information indicating a position offset between at least one bottom side pixel of the reference image and at least one bottom side pixel of the current image.

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2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a spatial resolution of the enhanced layer is higher than a spatial resolution of the base layer, the enhanced layer and the base layer being from a same video signal.

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April 6, 2009

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September 22, 2009

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